让娜（艾斯特·加莱尔 Esther Garrel 饰）是一个二十岁的年轻女孩，在刚刚结束了一段失败的恋情之后，她决定回到阔别已久的父亲吉勒（埃里克·卡拉瓦卡 Eric Caravaca 饰）家里，重新热络一下疏远的父女感情。
　　吉勒和妻子分手多年，一直都辗转在不同的女人之间。令让娜没有想到的是，当她回到家中时，竟然见到了一个年纪和自己差不多大的女孩阿丽亚娜（露易丝·谢维洛特 Louise Chevillotte 饰），这个女孩是父亲的现任情人。刚开始，阿丽亚娜的存在令让娜觉得非常的不舒服，因为这个女孩虽然年轻，但感情经历却极为丰富，并且目前正在同多位男子交往。但随着时间的推移，让娜、吉勒和阿丽亚娜之间渐渐产生了一种奇妙的关系。

　　故事发生在德国当代，简（丹尼尔·布鲁赫 Daniel Brühl 饰），皮特（斯坦奇·艾塞克 Stipe Erceg 饰）和朱莉（朱丽娅·耶恩奇 Julia Jentsch 饰）是三个社会上随处可见的普通青年。但在他们的内心里，愤怒和失望的火焰从未停止过燃烧，对于国家的现状，对于政府的不满，对于富人的仇恨，为了给这些汹涌的感情找到出口，他们必须要做一些与众不同的事情。
　　他们在夜里潜入豪宅之中，在大肆恶作剧一番后留下写有“好日子到头了”的恐吓纸条，这样一种行动让三位好友在情感上得到了发泄，也在精神上获得了快感。一次行动中，朱莉造成的意外导致他们不得不重返“犯罪现场”，不幸的是，他们刚好撞见了归家的房主，情势所迫，三人做了一件他们都不愿意做的事情——绑架。

　　Elliott, a young fisherman with an extraordinary voice, gets the chance of a lifetime when he is discovered by the successful high-profile music manager, Suzanne. Suzanne soon pairs Elliott with her estranged daughter and music producer, Lily. On his way to becoming a star, struggles from the past threaten not only his big breakthrough, but also the budding love with Lily.

　　Brooklyn-based Ella Richards does freelance work as a seamstress to pay the bills, but is also a struggling fashion designer, her talent which her friend Max, who often gets her her sewing work, can see. She specializes in designs for plus sized women such as herself in knowing that the high end fashion industry largely ignores this majority segment of the population in she herself having felt that exclusion all her life. Katie, her best friend and roommate, has her own fashion industry aspirations in wanting to be a fashion editor, although she admits the environment at Look, the high end fashion magazine where she works as an assistant, is not a pleasant one in the Editor-in-Chief Claudia Davenport and her assistant Liza, Katie's boss, treating people in general, including staff, like garbage unless it otherwise serves their needs. The first day that Ella helps Katie with an important fashion shoot at the magazine coincides with Derek Colby's first day there, Colby Publishing, his father Roger Colby's company, the magazine's parent company, assigning him to deal with the magazine's declining revenues, both in advertising and subscriptions, work he has done with other magazines under the Colby banner. Derek secretly asks Ella for a crash course in fashion design to assist in this task at the magazine, she his choice of teacher due to her knowledge of fashion in general, and she seemingly not being intimidated by him which most people tend to be in being a Colby in combination with his good looks resulting in he placing number seven of the most eligible bachelors in New York City. In spending time with Ella, Derek can see the revenue potential of the magazine expanding into the plus sized market and seemingly starts to fall for her in the process in wanting to do one of the first articles in this vein on her design career, much against the wishes of both Claudia and Liza. Beyond whether Derek is able to change the magazine's fortunes with this new direction, what happens between Ella and Derek will depend on whether Ella herself is confident enough in herself and Derek, who generally can have any woman he wants on his arm.—Huggo